Re: Starfire (Adaptec) kernel 2.6.13+ panics on AMD64 NFS server

• To: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Starfire (Adaptec) kernel 2.6.13+ panics on AMD64 NFS server
• From: Hendrik Visage <[email protected]>
• Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:21:25 +0200
• Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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On 10/1/05, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> You must never call skb_checksum_help unless the packet is meant to
> be checksummed by the hardware.  So starfire is the guilty party here.
>
> This patch makes it do the check and also check for errors from
> skb_checksum_help.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

Thanx Herbert,
 at least on 2.6.14_rc2 the patch appears to work for my stress test :)

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Hendrik Visage
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